Day: June 5, 2017

PM Narendra Modi has asked all secretaries to put collective effort to improve the condition of 100 most backward districts in the country. In his interaction with the top bureaucrats on Monday, the PM said this should be adopted on a mission mode and the various departments work as a team and not in silos to ensure the goal is achieved during “definite short time-frames”.

India said on Monday that it did not sign the Paris climate agreement under pressure or out of greed with foreign minister Sushma Swaraj emphatically dismissing US President Donald Trump’s allegation that India was exploiting the deal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just days after launching a new political action committee, former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden will join Republican officials and donors at a weekend retreat hosted by former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The weekend terror attack in London shows that the free world “is at war with Islamic horror,” says a Republican congressman, adding that “radicalized Islamic suspects” should be hunted down and killed. Rep.

In a first, the Defence ministry has proposed to bring four arms manufacturing units under the PPP (public-private-participation) model, in keeping with the central government’s intent to increase private participation in the sector.